“Archiving URLs § Why Not Internet Archive?”, 2011-03-10
Archiving the Web, because nothing lasts forever: statistics, online archive services, extracting URLs automatically from browsers, and creating a daemon to regularly back up URLs to multiple sources.
The Internet Archive’s archives should be rehosted when you use them, and it should not be relied on as the only host of an archived webpage: because rehosting is a better reader experience, and the IA is a dangerous single-point-of-failure with several factors increasing its risk of failure.